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e :2 g WITNESSES: f 1' llVVE/VTOn ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX THIELE, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF'TO WILLIAM C. CONRAD, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR LIGHTING GAS-BURNERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 422,659, dated March 4, 1890.

' Application filed September 9, 1889- $erial No. 323,404. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.- mounted on the hub of a ratchet-wheel f, Be it known that I, FELIX THIELE, of the which is placed loosely on the spindle of the city, county, and State of New York, a citizen gas-cock B. The tinder-thread is guided beof the United States, have invented certain tween the roller 6 and the elastic sleeve 6 to 5 5 5 new and useful Improvements in Devices for the guide-tube C, and fed forward by said Lighting Gas-Burners,of which the following rollers e and sleeve 6 with each turning of is a specification. the gas-cock. The roller 6' presses the tinder- This invention relates to an improved dethread on the sleeve 6 owing to the tension vice for lighting gas simultaneously with turnof the spring-arm E, on which the roller 2. is 1o ing on the same; and the invention consists supported.

of a guide-tube supported sidewise of the To the spindle of the gas-cock B is applied burner for guiding a tinder-thread that is so afixed ratchet-wheel f ,the teeth of which are prepared that it will become incandescent inclined in opposite directions to that of the and light the burner when the gas is turned ratchet-wheel f. A spring-actuated pawl f I 5 on, a feed device for feeding said thread forwhich is pivoted to the larger ratchet-wheel ward, said feed device being operated by the f, engages the teeth of the smaller ratchetspindle of a gas-cock, and a spool attached to Wheel f and takes the loose ratchet-wheel f the bracket-arm, on which spool the tinderalong when the stop-cock is turned in openpothread is wound. sition. The spring-check pawl f engages the 20 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 re pteeth of the loose ratchet-wheel f and prevents resents a side elevation of my improved gasthe same from turning when the gas-cock is lighter, shown as applied to the arm and turned, so as to shutoff the gas. The loose burner of a gas'bracket. Fig. 2 is a plan of ratchet-wheel f is retained on the spindle of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse secthe stop-cock B by a convex or concave 25 tion on line 4 4:, Fig. 4, showing the pawl-andwasher g and the transversev pin or key g,

ratchet mechanism for operating the feed dethat holds the said washer in position.

vice for the tinder-thread; and Fig. l is aver- WVhen the gas-cock D is opened, the elastic tical section of the feed device, shown as opsleeve 6 is turned, with the ratchet f, by the erated from the spindle of the gas-cock. action of the fixed ratchet f, attached to the 30 Similar letters of reference indicate correspindle of the stop-cock on the pawl f A sponding parts. forward motion is thereby imparted to the In the drawings, A represents the arm of a tinder-thread,which is held between the elasgas-bracket or other fixture; B, the burner, tic sleeve 0 and the guide-roller 6', so that and O a small guidetube,which extends from the required length of tinder-thread is fed 35 the burner downward for the purpose of above the burner, and thereby subjected to guiding a tinder-thread D, wound upon a the action of the escaping gas, which tinderspool D, that is supported on a standard atthread is, by the action of the gas, brought to tached to the gas-bracket A. The tinderincandescence, so as to light the gas. When thread is prepared in such a manner that turningoff the gas, theJoose ratchet is. not 0 40 when theend next to the burner is subjected turned with the spindle of the stop-cock, as to lthe action of the gas escaping from the the same is held by the check-pawlf so that same it becomes incandescent, and thereby the feed device is not actuated and the tinlights the gas. The tinder-thread and its der-thread retained in position. manufacture form the subject-matter of a As the tinder-thread can be manufactured 4 5 concurrent application, filed at the same date at comparatively small expense, and the mechherewith. The tinder-threadisguidedin eyes anisin for feeding the same in connection cl below the guide tube C,which eyes are supwith the gas-cock is comparatively simple, a ported on a spring-arm E, that is attached to convenient gas-lighting device is furnished the gas-arm A, which springarm is also prowhich can be readily applied to gasrbrackets, I00

50 vided with lugs that support a feed-roller e, chandeliers, and all gas-fixtures by which the which bears on a soft rubber sleeve etthat-is gas can be ignited in aquick and convenient manner without the use of matches or electric or other lighting devices.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a gas-arm, stopcock, and burner, of a tinder-thread guidetube arranged alongside of the burner, and a tion when the gas is shut off, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a gas-arm and gas-burner, of a tinder-thread guide-tube arranged alongside of the burner, a spool for the tinder-thread, feed-rollers between which said tinder-thread is guided to the guide-tube, and a pawl-and-ratchet mechanism operated by the stop-cock, whereby the tinder-thread is fed toward the burner when the cock is a tinder-thread guide-tube supported alongside of the same, a feed-roller for the tinder-.

thread supported on a spring-arm, a guideeye for the tinder-thread supported on said arm, an elastic sleeve on a loose ratchet-wheel of the spindle of the stop-cock, and a pawlan d-ratchet-mechanism operated by said spindle when the same is turned in one direction, so as to feed the tinder-thread toward the burner, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

W. REIMHERR, JOHN ALONZO STRALEY. 

